Building your career: A guide to your future

By Susan Jones Sears

Future-oriented, this practical self-help guide shows how to get a career going on the right track, stressing the need for systematic planning and presenting readers with an effective model for planning and decision making. Built around a framework of valuable exercises and models, it offers thorough 'sum-it-all-up' worksheets which pull together personal, family/social, and career traits, preferences and conditions, and even moves beyond the job search to discuss ethics and effectiveness in the workplace.'My Career and Life Planning Checklist' helps users pinpoint knowledge and skills necessary to effectively plan their career; 'Individual Career Plans #1 and #2' models help to integrate information about oneself in a composite self-portrait; and a unique 'Decision Making Model' discusses the decision maker, the decision situation, and the decision making process. It emphasizes the influence of family background and other environmental factors as an important part of career planning and decision making, and offers an eye-opening discussion of the work knowledge and skills people will need to succeed in the 21st Century. For anyone interested in developing their career.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897878248
• ISBN13: 9780897878241
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Gorsuch Scarisbrick
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.